Analysis of Wikipedia Editing (socio-technological infrastructure)
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Presentation at the 27th Annual International Conference on Design of Communication. By Shaun Slattery, Ph.D. Networked environments, such as wikis, are commonly used to support work, including the collaborative authoring of information and “fact-building.” In networked environments, the activity of fact-building is mediated not only by the technological features of the interface, but also by the social conventions of the community it supports. This paper examines the social and technological features of a Wikipedia article in order to understand how these features help mediate the activity of factbuilding and highlights the need for communication designers to consider the goals and needs of the communities for which they design.
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Analysis of Wikipedia Editing (socio-technological infrastructure)
- 1. “ Edit This Page” The Socio-technological Infrastructure of a Wikipedia Article Shaun Slattery DePaul University [email_address] ACM SIGDOC October 7, 2009 Bloomington, IN
- 3. Activity system of a W’pedia article mediating artifacts : wiki environment, sources object : clean coal technologies article outcome : Wikipedia project subject : “clean coal technologies” article authors division of labor : editors, administrators, stewards community : Wikipedia authors rules : Wikipedia policy and informal conventions
- 4. Activity system of a W’pedia article mediating artifacts : wiki environment, sources object : clean coal technologies article outcome : Wikipedia project subject : “clean coal technologies” article authors division of labor : editors, administrators, stewards community : Wikipedia authors rules : Wikipedia policy and informal conventions socio-technological
- 16. Swarts Shaun Slattery DePaul University [email_address] http://condor.depaul.edu/~sslatte1/
Notes de l'éditeur
- According to Latour and Woolgar, “Statements lie along a continuum according to the extent to which they refer to the conditions of their construction” [3, p.176]. Early on, facts must refer to the conditions of their creation in order to persuade potential allies. Eventually, however, “the process of construction involves the use of certain devices whereby all traces of production are made extremely difficult to detect” [3, p.176]. To see how a scientific fact was constructed, one must look back in the literature to trace the fact’s evolution. These dynamics of fact-building are also apparent in Wikipedia; however the design of the environment has implications for the activity of fact-building.
- The editors of the “clean coal technologies” article ( subject ) are using the technological infrastructure of the wiki as well as internal and external information sources ( mediating artifacts ) to produce an article ( object ) with the general motive of contributing to the Wikipedia project ( outcome ). These editors are a subset of the larger community of Wikipedia authors, among whom the group’s labor is divided and who generally abide by Wikipedia’s stated policy and informal conventions ( rules ).
- much fact-building activity is primarily mediated by mere writing [see 16] – that is, “back and forth writing, editing, and revising, through periods of negotiation”